first firm roger clegg and men from alan moore's sin. roger craig is president and general counsel of the center for equal opportunity. he focuses on legal issues, including regulatory impact on business and the problems in higher education created by affirmative action. attorney general and the bush administrations held the second highest positions in both the civil rights position on the environment and natural resources division. his house several other positions in the justice department, occluding assistant general and acting assistant attorney general in the office of legal policy. he is a graduate of the alaska will. please welcome roger clegg. [applause] >> thank you very much, roger for the nice introduction and inviting me today. thank you for the cato institute and thank you to rick sander and stuart taylor providing this book. i am going to begin by heaping praise on rick stuart for this the beard is terrific. make some extremely important contribution to the debate on these issues. i think an unprecedented contribution in ma